PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS

Performance enhancing drugs or ped's are used by professional and amateur athletes to "improve" game play

WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM IN SPORTS??

Is giving athletes an unfair advantage against competitors.

SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF PED'S

• paranoid (extreme,unreasonable)
• extreme irritability
• Delusions- impaired judgment
• Decrease in appetite
• Major decrease in sleep

LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF PEDS

• Anger and aggression (roid rage)
• Increase in chance of getting heart attack/stroke
• Kidney failure
• Tumors in liver
• Blood diseases from injection use

Since 2011 39 Major League Baseball players have been caught using ped's

SOLUTIONS FOR PED'S

• Stricter rules
• Fining the player
• Longer suspensions and or kick out of league

Citations
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Media, Livingly. Adeiny Hechavarria in Atlanta Braves v Miami Marlins. Zimbio, 2016. Web. 4 May 2016.

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Media, Livingly. Adeiny Hechavarria in Atlanta Braves v Miami Marlins. Zimbio, 2016.

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Poroy, Denis. Adeiny Hechavarria of the Miami Marlins tosses his bat as he hits a.. Getty Images, 1999. Web. 4 May 2016.

SooHoo, Jon. Manager Manny Acta of the Dominican Republic and manager Jon Deeble.. Getty Images, 1999. Web. 4 May 2016.

Citations pt3
SooHoo, Jon. Manager Manny Acta of the Dominican Republic and manager Jon Deeble.. Getty Images, 1999. Web. 4 May 2016.